Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

"what is that gun firing for? " said boxer.

"to celebrate our victory! " cried squealer.

"what victory? " said boxer. his knees were bleeding, he had lost a shoe and split his hoof, and a dozen pellets had lodged themselves in his hind leg.

"what victory, comrade? have we not driven the enemy off our soil—the sacred soil of animal farm? "

"but they have destroyed the windmill. and we had worked on it for two years! "

"what matter? we will build another windmill. we will build six windmills if we feel like it. you do not appreciate, comrade, the mighty thing that we have done. the enemy was in occupation of this very ground that we stand upon. and now— to the leadership of comrade napoleon—we have won every inch of it back again! "

"then we have won back what we had before," said boxer.

"that is our victory," said squealer.

this excerpt gives an example of irony.

a. dramatic
b. intentional
c. situational
d. verbal

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. there the woods of spring are a-bloom, and the fragrant scent “he is i” is borne on the wind: there the bee of the heart is deeply immersed, and desires no other joy. in at least one hundred words, how does kabir express his belief in god in this excerpt from “tell me, o swan, your ancient tale”?

Once you have finished revising your peer’s essay, continue to demonstrate your understanding of grammar and punctuation by writing an essay containing all of the grammatical concepts outlined above. your essay should be short, just 250 words, and it can be written on any subject. it should contain an example of parallel structure, an example of every type of phrase and clause outlined in this lesson, an example of two independent clauses connected by a semicolon, and an example of a colon. if you are struggling to come up with an idea for an essay, consider writing it about the themes present in one of the texts you have read already.

Which lines in this excerpt from act ii of william shakespeare’s romeo and juliet reveal that mercutio thinks romeo would be better off if he stopped thinking about love? mercutio: i will bite thee by the ear for that jest. romeo: nay, good goose, bite not. mercutio: thy wit is a very bitter sweeting it is a most sharp sauce. romeo: and is it not well served in to a sweet goose? mercutio: o here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad! romeo: i stretch it out for that word 'broad; ' which added to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose. mercutio: why, is not this better now than groaning for love? now art thou sociable, now art thou romeo; now art thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature: for this drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole. benvolio: stop there, stop there. mercutio: thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair. benvolio: thou wouldst else have made thy tale large. mercutio: o, thou art deceived; i would have made it short: for i was come to the whole depth of my tale; and meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.